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Strength to strength

The Bar must embrace change to strengthen its position in the face of recession and play its part to guarantee the survival of the legal aid system, says Nicholas Green QC

Barristers to instruct solicitors under new business model

Barristers' chambers could instruct solicitors under the Bar Council's plans for new business structures.

Update: ecclesiastical

Gregory Jones and Cain Ormondroyd discuss works to listed and other church buildings, equality legislation and cremation of human remains

Update: commercial property

Eugene McMahon and Janet Matthews consider cases involving authorised guarantee agreements, virtual assignments and rent as an expense of administration

Straw forced to scrap libel conditional fee cut

Justice secretary Jack Straw's plan to cut the maximum success fees charged by libel lawyers in conditional fee cases from 100 to ten per cent of damages has been dropped by the government.

Axe falls on criminal legal aid advocates

A funding order cutting the fees of criminal legal aid advocates was approved by both houses of Parliament as part of last week's legislative 'wash-up'.

Attorney General's former housekeeper guilty of fraud

Loloahi Tapui, former housekeeper of Attorney General Baroness Scotland, has been convicted of fraud at Southwark Crown Court.

North East: let's be charitable

Despite the recession slowing down the progress of many charities in the North East, as the economy improves the third sector scene is beginning to thrive, providing lawyers with more opportunities to grow this part of their business. Jean-Yves Gilg reports